Johann Adolph Hasse (Composer)
Born: 25th March 1699, Germany
Died: 16th December 1783, Venice
Nationality: German
Johann Adolph Hasse was an 18th-century German composer, singer and teacher of music. Immensely popular in his time, Hasse was best known for his prolific operatic output, though he also composed a considerable quantity of sacred music. Married to soprano Faustina Bordoni and a great friend of librettist Pietro Metastasio, whose libretti he frequently set, Hasse was a pivotal figure in the development of opera seria and 18th-century music.
Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Adolph_Hasse
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Further Reading: Hasse, J A
Interview,
Max Cencic on Hasse's Il Siroe Re di Persia
10th January 2015
Katherine talks to the Croatian countertenor about his rehabilitation of an opera that was 'praised to the skies' in its day…
Recording of the Week,
World premiere recording of Hasse's opera, Siroe Re di Persia
3rd November 2014
Katherine listens to the first ever recording of J A Hasse’s exotic opera, featuring vocal fireworks from Max Emanuel Cencic, Franco Fagioli and Julia Lezhneva.
Popular Works: Hasse, J A
- Ah che dissi, infelice! (from Didone Abbandonata) (2)
- Alta nubes illustrata (3)
- Artaserse (6)
- Artaserse (1730 Venice version) (2)
- Cadrà fra poco in cenere (from Didone abbandonata) (2)
- Chiama mi pur cosi (from Didone abbandonata) (2)
- Cleofide (3)
- Concerto for flute, strings and basso continuo in G major (3)
- Dei di Roma, ah perdonate! (from Il Trionfo di Clelia) (3)
- Il Cantico de' tre Fanciulli (2)
- Keyboard Sonata in G (2)
- Leon ch'errando vada (from Didone abbandonata) (2)
- Mandolin Concerto in G (4)
- Marc’ Antonio e Cleopatra (3)
- Mass in D Minor (3)
- Miserere in C minor (9)
- Miserere in D minor (4)
- Missa ultima in G minor (3)
- Morte, col fiero aspetto (from Antonio e cleopatra) (6)
- Oh Dio! Partir conviene (2)
- Pallido il sole (from Artaserse) (2)
- Passa di pena in pena - Cantata per traversiere e contralto (2)
- Perdono, amata Nice...Bei labbri, che Amore (from La Gelosia) (3)
- Polonaise in G Major (BWV Anh. 130) (2)
- Prelude in B flat major (2)
- Recorder Sonata in B flat major, 'Cantata' (4)
- Regina coeli in D major (3)
- Requiem in C major (3)
- Requiem in E flat (3)
- Salve Regina in A major (4)
- Siam navi all'onde algenti (from L'Olimpiade) (2)
- Signor la tua Speranza… A Dio trono, impero a Dio (from Marc’Antonio e Cleopatra) (2)
- Sinfonia Op. 3 No. 3 (2)
- Solca il mar (from Tigrane) (2)
- Son reo, son reo...Giura il nocchier che al mare (from La Gelosia) (3)
- Sonata for Flute and Basso Continuo in D Minor, Op. 1 No. 11 (2)
- Te Deum in G major (4)
- Toccata and Fugue in G minor (2)
- Tu mi disarmi il fianco (from Didone abbandonata) (2)
- Viver vogl’io sempre per te mio dio....Or mi pento (from La conversion di Sant’Agostino) (2)
